What's the difference between bencher and wencher?
Bencher
Definition:
(n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
(n.) An alderman of a corporation.
(n.) A member of a court or council.
(n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
Example Sentences:
(1) She also shows the grasp of detail and ability to talk about the lives of ordinary women that has made her one of Labour's most feared front-benchers.
(2) Higher,” shouted one or two back-benchers after a hurry-up from the whips.
(3) He later joined the SDP, although he sat as a cross-bencher in his rare appearances in the Lords.
(4) The former Conservative front bencher, David Davis said: "Quite frankly, the offer to resettle just 600 Afghan interpreters is a disgrace.
(5) I would ask the cross benchers to turn their backs on this shabby stunt and to support the Speaker.
(6) The election of the Greens' Adam Bandt and the other cross-benchers to the lower house forced Gillard's minority government to negotiate compromises to remain in power.
(7) One member of Corbyn’s shadow cabinet told The Sun that as many as 10 front benchers were prepared to break the party whip.
(8) Now : Leaving the government but says: "I intend to remain as an active back bencher in the House of Commons."
(9) But the Tory pledge, seen as a key plank of the modernisation agenda championed by David Cameron, has come under increasing pressure from within the party, with several right-wing back benchers speaking out publicly, and a leaked letter from Liam Fox , when he was defence secretary, also criticising the policy.
(10) After a summer during which far too many of its front-benchers seem to have taken a vow of silence before setting off on holiday, Labour is belatedly trying to make the running on the crisis in people's living standards.
(11) The Conservative party has 228 members, Labour has 212 and there are 178 cross benchers.
(12) Labour, Lib Dems and SNP peers were joined by a significant number of cross benchers and even a few Tories.
(13) The cross-party amendment had been tabled by Faulkner, a Labour peer, Lady Tyler, a Lib Dem, Lady Finlay a cross-bencher and Lord McColl, a Tory.
(14) Similar discussions are under way in the House of Lords, where cross-benchers and pro-European Tories have held meetings in recent weeks to discuss whether they would seek amendments of their own.
(15) The Greens and other cross-benchers objected to the changes to the standing orders, which draw a line over the more inclusive style of the previous minority 43rd parliament and restore majority government control of both the parliamentary agenda and tone of the chamber.
(16) The bills are not expected to pass the Senate intact with cross-benchers, as well as leader of Palmer’s United Party, Clive Palmer, opposing large tracts of them.
(17) In depicting the CPK-image on a computer screen, the hidden-point removal is the main task and on such an image, the front-line atoms hide the back-benchers and their whereabouts become completely unknown, in a given view of the picture.
(18) With only 249 Conservative peers in an 808 strong upper house, Cameron faces the real prospect of defeat on one of the votes, as long as the cross benchers, who are inclined to respect the limits of the powers of the Lords, decide not to swing behind the government on a point of constitutional principle.
(19) Arguably, the cross-benchers are right-leaning, but it was not a question of Abbott’s poor sales technique that education deregulation, the Medicare co-pay proposal and every single piece of industrial relations legislation were blocked by the Senate.
(20) Career 2013: chair, public inquiry into Mid Staffs NHS foundation trust; 2010: chair, independent inquiry into Mid Staffs; 2009: qualified as deputy high court judge; 2008 to present: chair, education and training committee, Honorary Society Inner Temple; 1999 to present: head, Serjeants Inn chambers; 2000-06: Professional Negligence Bar Association (chair; vice-chair; member, executive committee); 2002: made Bencher of the Honorary Society Inner Temple; 2000-present: recorder (part-time judge); 1996-2000: assistant recorder; 1992: made a QC; 1973: called to the bar, Inner Temple.